Quotes About Creativity

I remember my favorite books when I was a kid: 'The Redwall Adventure' series, 'Ender's Game,' things like that.

I think 'Paranorman' was a great adventure.

What I've done is I've started writing a novel, so that's my big adventure.

I don't know about relationships. Maybe I'm supposed to travel and make films and meet people and have adventures instead.

When you create advertising, always start with the words.

Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.

Nothing could be more restrictive than working with people in advertising.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.

I had been saying to myself for a good many years that I was really a writer and that I was in advertising temporarily.

I'm proud to say that I'm in advertising.

The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing.

I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.

I would hate to think my songs were giving advice to people.

I think the best advice I give is to try not to write. Try not to overwrite, try not to make it sound too good. Just use your own voice. Use your own style of putting it down.

I don't ask other artists for too much advice.

I would advise anyone starting out as a singer/songwriter to play live as much possible. You never know who might be in the audience.

I'm so happy to be an advocate for poetry.

I believe in artists. I'm an advocate for artists.

No one is mediating aesthetic choices on an OPN album other than myself.

I'm interested in aesthetics, language, art, fashion, everything.

The exciting thing about Bleachers and fun. are they're different, and they're aesthetically different in many ways. But it's also like my role is very different, and that's cool.

Once you see how powerful music is and how it can affect people, then you want to use it to impact the world.

It's hard to say if actual places really affect the way you write.